Andrew W. Appel Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Computer Science Princeton University Visiting Professor, Cornell University

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Research Interests: program verification, computer security, programming language semantics, machine-checked proofs, compilers, and election technology.
Current work: I work on formally verified numerical methods for scientific computing, and on the technology policy of voting machines and elections.

VST project page

Formally Verified Numerical Methods

Voting machines

Technology policy work: voting machines Selected recent articles: (more here and here) Securing the Vote — National Academies report Florida is the Florida of ballot-design mistakes Pilots of risk-limiting election audits in California and Virginia BMDs are not meaningfully auditable Did Sean Hannity misquote me? Georgia’s election avoided an even worse nightmare... New Hampshire Election Audit, part 1; and part 2 ES&S Uses Undergrad Project to Lobby NY Legislature A PDF File Is Not Paper, So PDF Ballots Cannot Be Verified Magical thinking about BMD contingency plans Is Internet Voting Secure? The Science and the Policy Battles Why the voting machines failed in Mercer County Next Steps for Mercer County Unrecoverable Election Screwup in Williamson County TX Suggested Principles for State Statutes Regarding Ballot Marking and Vote Tabulation CAC-Vote: Another Insecure Internet Voting System

Other technology policy work I've done

A bit of history

Previous research projects